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Can you point me to a specific current federal regulation that would’ve prevented this issue? TFA posits that there aren’t. So, you’ll take money to enforce a n
by leesalminen 6y ago
Can you point me to a specific current federal regulation that would’ve prevented this issue? TFA posits that there aren’t. So, you’ll take money to enforce a non-existent regulation?
- davidgay 6y agoThe trivial proof of the GP's statement is that there are regions of the world and the US that regularly drop below 20F and have a functioning electrical grid (say, for instance, Alaska).
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoThats probably a result of superior management of infrastructure rather than “application of enough force.”
- makomk 6y agoThat's not proof at all. Building grid infrastructure that can function below 20F in regions that reach that temperature regularly is easier in important ways - in particular, if a new piece of infrastructure gets built that can't cope, the problem will happen early on and either get fixed or worked around, whereas somewhere like Texas can build up decades of new infrastructure that can't cope with the cold before anything happens to demonstrate that.
- maxerickson 6y agoIt is clearly stated as a hypothetical application of political will, not a reference to a particular regulation.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoThen this is the indicated response: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide
- maxerickson 6y agoHuh? The various law making entities in the US are not always making maximal use of their power, it doesn't make any sense to wave your hands in the air and say that they can only do the things they've already made laws for.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoWas King Canute making maximal use of his power when he ordered back the waves, or could he have deployed his army to the beach to reinforce his edicts?
- maxerickson 6y agoI don't know, I wasn't there.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoIt probably doesn’t matter because neither halting the tide nor producing heat in the winter are problems that are solved by authoritarian measures.
- VintageCool 6y agoRequire that the power companies in Texas winterize their equipment. Done. The electric company in El Paso, which is not part of ERCOT, did spend heavily to winterize their equipment after the 2011 cold snap. El Paso did not suffer outages this year like the rest of Texas. Producing heat in the winter is a solved problem. If power companies are not applying the known solutions to a recurring problem, then apply state force to require them to do so. Done.